1. Chapter 5 – The Plasma Membrane and Transport

2. State Standard
Standard 1.a. – Cells are enclosed within semi-permeable membranes that regulate their interaction with their surroundings

3. Membrane Function
Forms a boundary between living cells and their surroundings.
Controls the movement of molecules into and out of the cell
- Selective permeability – allows some substances to cross more easily than others and blocks passage of some substances altogether

4. Membrane Function
3. Takes up substances the cell needs and disposes of the cell’s wastes. 4. Membranes can contain enzymes that function in various chemical reactions.

5. Membrane Structure The plasma membrane is 8 nm thick.
It is mainly made up of phospholipids and proteins.

6. Membrane Structure carbohydrate protein cholesterolc
Phospholipid bilayer

7. Membrane phospholipids
Phospholipids have a hydrophilic head and two hydrophilic tails.

8. Membrane phospholipids
The phospholipids form a bilayer
- The hydrophilic heads face outward and the hydrophobic tails face inward
Hydrophobic tails

9. Membrane Proteins
Membrane proteins are found within the phospholipid bilayer
They can extend all the way through the bilayer – integral proteins
They can be found embedded on either surface – peripheral proteins
Phospholipid
bilayer
Integral Protein
Peripheral protein

10. Functions of Membrane Proteins

11. Some proteins transport substances across the membrane by forming channels or by physically moving them across the membrane.

12. Membrane Proteins Functions of membrane proteins include:
Transport of substances across the membrane
Join cells to one another
Act as enzymes
Bind to chemical messengers from other cells
Act as identification tags so cells can recognize one another
Attach to cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix

13. Membrane cholesterol and carbohydrates
Cholesterol is found within the phospholipid bilayer
It helps stabilize the phospholipids
Carbohydrates
Located on outer layer of membrane only
Bound to proteins (glycoproteins) or phopholipids (glycolipids)
Act as identification tags for cell cell recognition

14. Fluid Mosaic Model

15. Fluid Mosaic Model The membrane is a fluid mosaic
Fluid – the phospholipids and the proteins drift within the membrane
Mosaic – the diversity of proteins found within the membrane and the arrangement
of these proteins in the membrane

17. Transport Across the Membrane
Diffusion
The tendency of particles of any kind to spread from regions of high concentration to regions of low concentration
Requires no energy, results from the random motion of atoms and molecules.

18. Transport Across the Membrane
Passive Transport
Substances diffuse through the membrane without work by the cell
They spread from areas of high concentration to areas of lower concentration
At equilibrium the molecules continue to move but there is no net change in the concentration on either side of the membrane
Molecule of dye
Membrane
EQUILIBRIUM

19. Transport Across the Membrane
Osmosis is the passive transport of water
Water travels from an area of lower solute concentration to an area of higher solute concentration

20. Transport Across the Membrane
Hypertonic
- the solution with the higher solute concentration
Hypotonic
- the solution with the lower solute concentration
Water moves from the hypotonic solution to the hypertonic solution.

21. Transport Across the Membrane
Water continues to cross the membrane until the solute concentrations are equal on both sides of the membrane
Isotonic
- solutions with equal solute concentrations
Water molecules continue to move across the membrane but at the same rate in both directions

22. Osmosis Problems – Draw a diagram illustrating the problem, identify the solutions as hyper, hypo or isotonic, and show the direction osmosis will occur
1. A cell containing 2% solute is placed in a solution containing 10% solute.
2. A candy containing 15% solute is placed in a solution containing 12% solute.
3. A cell containing 7% solute is placed in a solution containing 9% solute.
4. A candy containing 10% water is placed in a solution containing 90% water.
5. A fish contains 95% water lives in freshwater that contains 68% water.

23. How Does Osmosis Affect Cells?
Distilled Water
3x Saline
Induces turgor in cells
Induces turgor in animal cells
Makes plant cell pull away from cell wall
Makes plant cell lyse
Makes animal cell lyse
Makes animal cell shrivel

24. How Does Osmosis Affect Cells?
Explain the different outcomes of adding distilled water to the plant and animal cells.
Which conditions best model the effects of drought on plant cells? Explain your answer.
Hypothesize why plants grow better when the water surrounding their cells is slightly hypotonic to the cell.

25. Water balance between cells and their surroundings is crucial to organisms
Osmosis causes cells to shrink in a hypertonic solution and swell in a hypotonic solution.

26. Transport Across the Membrane
Small non-polar molecules diffuse freely through the phospholipid bilayer
Many other kinds of molecules diffuse through pores created by membrane proteins
This type of transport is called facilitated diffusion
Solute molecule
Transport
protein

27. Transport Across the Membrane
Active Transport

28. Transport Across the Membrane
Transport proteins can move solutes across the membrane against a concentration gradient.
- This is called active transport
Active transport requires ATP – cells use energy to move the molecule across the membrane.
The solute is moved from low concentration to high concentration.

29. Transport Across the Membrane
To move large molecules or particles across the membrane a vesicle may fuse with the membrane and expel its contents – exocytosis

30. Transport Across the Membrane
Or the membrane may fold inward, trapping material from the outside, and form a vesicle that carries the material into the cell – endocytosis

31. Transport Across the Membrane
There are 3 kinds of endocytosis
Pseudopod of
the amoeba
Food being
ingested
Plasma membrane
Material bound to receptor
proteins

32. Transport Across the Membrane
There are 3 kinds of endocytosis:
Phagocytosis – a cell brings in macromolecules, other cells, or particles
Pinocytosis – the cell takes in fluid and dissolved solutes
Receptor-mediated endocytosis – specific molecules bind to receptors on the membrane that signal to the cell to take the molecule in

33. Harmful levels of cholesterol can accumulate in the blood if membranes lack cholesterol receptors